Jacques Tourneur

Jacques Tourneur ( born November 12, 1904 in Paris, † December 19, 1977 in Bergerac in the Dordogne ) was an American film director of French descent.

Jacques Tourneur came in 1914 with his father, the French film director Maurice Tourneur, in the United States. In 1919 he became an American citizen. 1929 Tourneur met during the shooting of his father for the German film " The ship of the lost people " his future wife, the actress Christiane Virideau. After he assisted his father in his projects, turned Tourneur 1931 French film " Tout ça ne vaut pas l' amour".

As head of the second unit of David O. Selznick's "flight from Paris" ("A Tale of Two Cities", 1935) he met the director Val Lewton, who asked him to accept the new " horror department " at RKO in 1942, to become its first director. The result was artistically outstanding films like " Cat People " ( Cat People, 1942) and " I followed a Zombie" (I walked with a zombie, 1942). , 1947 he succeeded to the multi-layered, atmospheric incredibly dense film " Out of the Past " (with Robert Mitchum, Kirk Douglas and Jane Greer ) is an absolute masterpiece of film noir.

After Tourneur in 1950 for his beloved fabric of the Western "Stars In My Crown " with Joel McCrea of artistic idealism rejected the dominance of Categories Box office result, he received from the great - especially on profit maximization oriented - Hollywood studios no highly doped more jobs and had to be confined for the rest of his career in the production of the less well -equipped films and television series. Here, on the one hand due to production geared to the mainstream cinematic contributions were in part to " Bonanza ," " Amazing Stories" ( The Twilight Zone ) or "The Barbara Stanwyck Show", on the other hand also artistically outstanding film gems such as the subtle and profound horror classic " The Curse of the Demon " (with Dana Andrews ), Jacques Tourneur which identifies them as outspoken champion of the film director 's work.

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